§ * MR. BERTRAMI beg to ask the President of the Board of Education whether the Board can aid agricultural as well as other forms of technological education, and upon what grounds the Board has refused to give grants-in-aid to certain agricultural colleges that have applied for them.
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION (Mr. BIRRELL,) Bristol, N.If the hon. Member will supply me privately with the names of the colleges to which he refers I will have the matter investigated, but so far as my information goes the places where grants have been refused are places which had already received grants from the Board of Agriculture in respect of the same work. 644 Agricultural education, as well as other forms of technological education, is aided by grants from the Board who are doing all in their power to assist its development. They are in constant co operation with the Board of Agriculture for this purpose.
§ * MR. BERTRAMasked if it was not the fact that the Board of Education and the Board of Agriculture necessarily differ in regard to the purpose for which grants are made, and can only give them for specified purposes?
§ MR. BIRRELLI understand there is-a little overlapping in this case, and I wilt look into it.